Portfolio

PALM DESERT, Calif. -- The selling of investments to individual investors and their purchases of them are mired in dysfunction, according to the former director of conduct risk and sector leader for asset management of the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom.

PALM DESERT, Calif. -- Eileen Rominger, in her first appearance before a gathering of members of the mutual fund industry’s largest trade group, said that compliance with existing and forthcoming rules as well as robust regulation of these is essential to achieving and maintaining the trust and confidence of investors.

There is a strong correlation between fund stewardship and performance, Morningstar found in its 2011 Mutual Fund Stewardship Grade research study, which examined more than 1,000 funds from 40 fund complexes.

PALM DESERT, Calif. -- It’s been three years since the collapse of Bear Stearns – which occurred on the eve of the 2008 Investment Company Institute Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference.

Vanguard is planning to launch an actively managed emerging markets equity fund that will be managed by four investment advisors.

Invesco has introduced PlanForward Foundations, a set of three toolkits to help advisers grow their defined contribution business.

Hedge funds around the world are ramping up their technology spending to provide better service to the growing mix of institutional clients they serve and to ensure they're well prepared to adequately meet increasing compliance and regulatory requirements.

Dreyfus has launched the Dreyfus Total Emerging Markets Fund, which will invest in equities, bonds and currencies. The fund will be managed by investment boutiques of Dreyfus parent company BNY Mellon Asset Management, with Standish Mellon Asset Management running the fixed income and currencies portion of the portfolio and The Boston Company Asset Management running the equities portion.

The market's 3% decline in the week ended March 19 may be the low from which the market will rebound, according to BlackRock Chief Equity Strategist Bob Doll.

It's almost exactly four years since the financial crisis began to erupt. On March 21, 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 12,278.73, as the first indications that the subprime mortgage market might crater had surfaced. On March 21, 2011, the Dow closed at 12,039.10, a mere difference of 1.95%.